Online platforms provide plentiful venues to share our expertise, to voice our opinion, to represent and be visible. Intersectionality in Tech 101 is a clear example. …

Charlottesville Women in Tech (CWIT), had the privilege of interviewing two very inspiring young women from Charlottesville, Virginia, who at a grass-roots level are single-handedly proliferating access to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) for elementary and middle school students in the area. MEET ADITI AND RIMI Aditi Prakash and…

There is no time more important than now to create a community that nurtures and encourages more women (and girls) into technology roles. This is partially because, as it always has been, technology careers are in demand, exciting, lucrative, flexible, and a creative way to make a difference in the…

The February Charlottesville Women in Tech event was a discussion of the book Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions by authors Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran. The book, in part, tries to help the reader reframe the term “microaggressions,” which are often neither micro nor…

Charlottesville Women in Tech (CWIT) was founded in 2015 to provide human connections and resources to women and girls interested in or associated with technology. We’ve hosted around 1,000 people at our more than 75 events, lunches, meet-ups, book clubs, etc. That doesn’t even include the programs for girls that…

“You’re not supposed to be fearless; all you have to do is be brave.” - Kai Frazier In our first article, Racial Equity in Tech: What’s the Problem?, we identified the current state of the gaps in racial diversity of tech companies, how racism plays a role in these numbers…

Black women contributed a great deal to the STEM fields despite gross underrepresentation in these industries. Thanks to the film Hidden Figures, which highlights the stories of tech pioneers Kathrine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan, more conversations surround Black women in tech. …

“Whenever a Black person or group used White people as a standard of measurement and cast another Black person or group as inferior, it was another instance of racism.” ― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Our vision at Charlottesville Women…

It was great seeing everyone at this month’s virtual CWIT July meetup — what a turnout! While I’ve led numerous Whole Brain® Thinking sessions in a corporate environment, this was the first time I facilitated for a non-profit, community group. …